Family Mediation Project

What is it?
A means-tested family mediation pilot scheme has been run by ARC Mediation in collaboration with academic researchers in Waterford Institute of Technology. The project was self-financing in the sense that neither ARC nor WIT sought state funding.

The original project spanned 4 phases and operated from the summer of 2013 to the summer of 2017. The project provided family mediation only, and was limited to discussion of parenting issues such as access & parenting plans where one or both parties are using legal aid or are lay litigants. The project didn’t address the mediation of Deeds of Separation or consent terms for divorce.